First molecular identification and phylogeny of a Babesia sp. from a symptomatic sow (Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2321-2324

  Zobba, Rosanna ^a   Parpaglia, Maria Luisa Pinna ^a   Spezzigu, Antonio ^b   Pittau, Marco ^a   Alberti, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Università degli Studi di Sassari ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVITAMIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOW (SWINE);

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUS SCROFA;

BABESIA SP.; SUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 79957526778     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00312-11     Document Type: Article

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